Meeshun Impossibre Tree Review
Let's cut to the chase. Better than #2 but almost as good as #1.
With that said, Ethan Hunt is back doing the impossible missions to avenge the death of his protege. There really isn't much to expect from this film because if you want action that is unpretentious and just full bore on entertaining...this is it. I would have to say this is about as smart as blockbuster action you'll see without being too gracefully chereographed such as The Matrix or Equilibrium. However it's not so outrageously Brukheimerian to insult your taste in film. However saying that...did it succeed?
In someways I don't think it did. I did think it was a great movie, but it wasn't a great Mission Impossible movie. A lot of conventions of typical action films eventually seeped into the plot of the film; which even though done well enough, does leave me a little deflated in expectations. Another problem that arose is that essentially, it's become a James Bond version of Mission Impossible. What really impressed me most about Mission Impossible was the use of gadgetry and pulling off the impossible in unique ways. With James Bond, it's always felt that gadgetry was there for the pure sake of creating a unqiuly specific scene in the future. However with MI, it always seem like more, gadgetry was used to aid in a situation that required thinking to solve rather than gagetry alone. Even though this time around more focus was put upon a team dynamic, they haven't seemed to command a large enough presence to be actual characters to care for.
Another problem is that after watching 24, any form of interrogation is pretty much tame compared to anything else that happens in MI:3, aside from an excellent performance from Phillip Seymour Hoffman. One scene shows Ethan basically pretending to be as badass as Jack Bauer, but it truly falls flat. The moral conflicts are pretty much typical.
But overall a good film to check out, even though we had basically 1 year of Cruise mania grace our media, it's good enough to make you ignore that for about 2 hours.
3/5 stars.
With that said, Ethan Hunt is back doing the impossible missions to avenge the death of his protege. There really isn't much to expect from this film because if you want action that is unpretentious and just full bore on entertaining...this is it. I would have to say this is about as smart as blockbuster action you'll see without being too gracefully chereographed such as The Matrix or Equilibrium. However it's not so outrageously Brukheimerian to insult your taste in film. However saying that...did it succeed?
In someways I don't think it did. I did think it was a great movie, but it wasn't a great Mission Impossible movie. A lot of conventions of typical action films eventually seeped into the plot of the film; which even though done well enough, does leave me a little deflated in expectations. Another problem that arose is that essentially, it's become a James Bond version of Mission Impossible. What really impressed me most about Mission Impossible was the use of gadgetry and pulling off the impossible in unique ways. With James Bond, it's always felt that gadgetry was there for the pure sake of creating a unqiuly specific scene in the future. However with MI, it always seem like more, gadgetry was used to aid in a situation that required thinking to solve rather than gagetry alone. Even though this time around more focus was put upon a team dynamic, they haven't seemed to command a large enough presence to be actual characters to care for.
Another problem is that after watching 24, any form of interrogation is pretty much tame compared to anything else that happens in MI:3, aside from an excellent performance from Phillip Seymour Hoffman. One scene shows Ethan basically pretending to be as badass as Jack Bauer, but it truly falls flat. The moral conflicts are pretty much typical.
But overall a good film to check out, even though we had basically 1 year of Cruise mania grace our media, it's good enough to make you ignore that for about 2 hours.
3/5 stars.
1 Comments:
"Better than #2 but almost as good as #1."
That statement is perfectly true.
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